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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.

George Washington

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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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